Comptes Rendus Physique

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Dossier Sommaire

Stephan Schlamminger

Darine Haddad

The Kibble balance and the kilogram

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

Jean-Pierre Nadal

Tome 20 (2019) – N◦ 4 – mai–juin 
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DOSSIER
From statistical physics to social sciences / De la physique statistique aux sciences sociales
Coordinators / Coordinateurs : Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Jean-Pierre Nadal
• Foreword
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Jean-Pierre Nadal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
• Statistical Physics Of Opinion Formation: Is it a SPOOF?
Arkadiusz Jędrzejewski, Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
• Herding and idiosyncratic choices: Nonlinearity and aging-induced transitions in the noisy voter model
Oriol Artime, Adrián Carro, Antonio F. Peralta, José J. Ramasco, Maxi San Miguel, Raúl Toral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
• Reality-inspired voter models: A mini-review
Sidney Redner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
• Modeling cities
Marc Barthelemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
• Towards a statistical mechanics of cities
Luís M.A. Bettencourt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
• Low-temperature marginal ferromagnetism explains anomalous scale-free correlations in natural flocks
Andrea Cavagna, Antonio Culla, Luca Di Carlo, Irene Giardina, Tomas S. Grigera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
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Contents (continued)
• In social complex systems, the whole can be more or less than (the sum of) the parts
Éric Bertin, Pablo Jensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
• A structural model of market dynamics, and why it matters
Jonathan Khedair, Reimer Kühn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
• Dynamics of wealth inequality
Zdzislaw Burda, Pawel Wojcieszak, Konrad Zuchniak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
• Lost in diversification
Marco Bardoscia, Daniele d’Arienzo, Matteo Marsili, Valerio Volpati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
• Towards novelty-driven recommender systems
Pietro Gravino, Bernardo Monechi, Vittorio Loreto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
• The politics of physicists’ social models
Pablo Jensen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
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Foreword

Oriol Artime

Adrián Carro

Antonio F. Peralta

José J. Ramasco

Maxi San Miguel

Raúl Toral

Herding and idiosyncratic choices: Nonlinearity and aging-induced transitions in the noisy voter model

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